Guest Blog by Azhar Aslam
India today is considered by the world to be an established state. Indians think they are on the brink of acquiring super power status. LeT on the other hand is a banned organization considered to be a terrorist non-state actor. So why is it that the belligerence and jingoism Indian state and media is what would be expected of an organization like LeT. How come Indian state is behaving like a terrorist organization?
Non-state violent actors, until recently have been called mercenaries and have been used, by different powers throughout human history. British imperialism started its life in this shape and form, the most famous being the East India Company. Sir Drake , Sir Raleigh and other such “privateers,” were all non state entrepreneurs who advanced state power. Lawless violence often preceded the rule of law.
More recently after the Second World War United States has employed several non-state forces in various parts of the world to further its foreign policy agenda, often at high human and economic cost to that country and its people. Ironically Afghanistan was one such theatre. The Indian support for Baluchistan insurgency is an open secret. There is a strength of evidence for Indian and US support for ‘Jihadist’ groups operating on Pakistani territories.
After the recent Mumbai attacks it has been claimed by India ( serious evidence still pending) that a non state actor LeT has infringed its territory and perpetrated lawless violence. Indian state and its leaders are now invoking this as a reason to respond in kind. The jingoistic antipakistani stance of Indian media and politicians is being built to hysterical levels. There have been calls to respond in ‘manner of United States’.
It is most disturbing that Indian government instead of behaving in a lawful manner befitting the largest country in the region, has tried its fullest to take ”advantage” of human misery in its own country and of its own people and made this a ‘Pakistan-centric’ event. When it should have been paying attention to healing its own wounds, India has seen it as an opportunity to salt these wounds and create fresh ones. And here the state has been led by hysterical media. That tells volume about the structural stability and framework of Indian institutions claimed to represent world’s largest democracy.
Indian state wants to behave like private bullies , justifying violence , revenge and torture just like non-state terrorists. As Arjvind Rajgopal has put it ‘War has become the preferred means of practicing politics under the guise of opposing terrorism, and it is endorsed as a sacred duty’.
India seems to be following in USSR tradition and trying to create an aura of invincibility for its own ego satisfaction without considering the hundreds of millions of its citizens who are hungry, poor and destitute. Is the death of nearly 250 people, mayhem for a few days in one city, a little hurt ego more important than the teeming masses who linger in poverty. Should India not be concentrating its efforts on spending money for creating infrastructure for its own; of education, health, transport , economic opportunities. Is it worth a war?
Common sense answer is ‘No’. So Why is it that certain parts of Indian media/intellectuals/politicians triumvirate, want India to respond in an American manner? Our analysis leads us to two reasons.
First, Indian leaders and intellectuals suffer from severe inferiority complex and generational anger lingering on from British Raj days. For all the talk of rising power of India and Indians taking over the world India is desperate to declare itself as a super power one way or another. Look closely at the pattern of Indian media’s coverage. It was not designed for Indian masses. It was designed to be fed to the international audeince, in particular US and UK citizens, whose gullibility has no limits. And it is seems India has decided that its response to Mumbai attack, (which by the way was smaller in number of casualties compared to 1993 or 2006 or Gujrat, just to quote few examples) is going to declare to the world that it has turned into a regional or world super power.
India has this complex about being ‘Like America’. This is no more than a sign of serious inferiority complex and insecurity of its own identity. The most obvious sign of this inferiority complex is that the event is described as India’s 9/11, with enemy intruders committing murder and mayhem. “9/11″ has become a nationalizing mantra across the globe, an invocation to remember violence in order to garner consent for violent retaliation.
No one has even considered that what the world has turned into after the American response. It is not as if the world has become a safer or better place that this response should be imitated. The signs of being super in power are maturity and sagacity. It is to reach out and stand against terrorism of any kind and take other ( in this case smaller) countries in the region with her. It is to lead. But has India done any of it ? No sir. So forget about being super in power. India needs to set its own house in order.
This brings us to the second reason behind India’s jingoistic stance. It is related to the long standing failure of Indian state. It has failed in three important respects. First, it has failed its own secularism and failed to forge an Indian nation; second it has failed its own poor in pure economic terms; and thirdly it has failed its Indianness in its eagerness to ape the west.
Not withstanding show boys of Indian Muslims (from Abul Kalam Azaad to M J Akbar) there is the increasing discrimination in civil society and the media against Muslims. Indian state continually fails to provide justice to its minorities and masses. Then there are Dalits, Chrsitians, Bhuddists, Tamils, Naxalites. The list goes on. I quote Gopal again:’ Muslims in India have, for some time, been treated as internal enemies, through a combination of covert and overt socio-economic boycotts, state discrimination, episodes of intense political violence, and anti-terror legislation granting judicial powers to police.’
And what is Indian response to all this. For Kashmir, it blames Pakistan; for the seven sister states Bangladesh is the culprit and China takes the blame for the Naxalite insurrection. India has been in a state of perpetual war due to its ego, border disputes with all its neighbours and misplaced priorities.
Then there are pure economic issues. Here again Indian leaders ego complexes have led to failure of its own people. This failure is villainous in part and negligent to criminal extent. It is multifold and multilayered. While ‘India is shining’ for an elite minority, the masses and the land is being opened up for a new form of colonialism for Bharati and multinationals corporations, in the name of reforms and progress.
What Indians have failed to grasp or at least have shown no capacity to put any such understanding into context is that they are seen as no more than a big economic market opportunity for western nations and corporations, due to sheer numbers. Research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) shows that within a generation, the country will become a nation of upwardly mobile middle-class households, consuming goods ranging from high-end cars to designer clothing. In two decades the country will surpass Germany as the world’s fifth largest consumer market. It is this which attracts West; not some attitudinal shift in Anglo-Saxon thinking. If they are under any illusion that suddenly Westerns have started seeing them as equal partners, all they have to do is to sit in few pubs across middle England. That shall be more than sufficient to clear such delusions of grandeur.
Consequently in the name of progress, poor are marginalized. Cities suffer from severe economic and social segregation. The slums for the poor are demolished and ghettos moved around. Muslim and Dalits in India are overwhelmingly concentrated in such ghettos and, in episodes of Hindu nationalist violence, have been the principal victims of assaults. It is not India shining. It is Bollywood shining and like tinsel town it is more razz matazz than substance . The Justice Sachar Committee, in 2006, reported that ‘the condition of Muslims had deteriorated to such a point that they were worse off than the untouchable caste, which has traditionally occupied the lowest rung of Indian society’. In some cases, Muslims are ostracized to the point of social death.
And for all the talk of famed reforms by the present Indian Prime Minister in early 1990s, when he was a finance minister, it was more a case of India being at the right place at the right time by sheer luck than any planned strategic goal achievement. Indian progress owes much to certain historical events converging fortuitously at the right time. The collapse of USSR forced India into balance payment crisis, forcing Rao and Singh’s hand to deliver economic reforms where by Licence Raj was ended. At about the same time seeds of globalization were being sown while West was recovering form the recessions of early 1990s. The scores of English speaking graduates of IIT were now suddenly available at cheap labour adding impetus to Indian preeminence as outsourced markets. Western corporations were looking for cutting their costs and they started outsourcing. Indian diaspora played its part. Manufacturing was outsourced to China and IT services to India. Subsequently ore reforms followed and FDI increased as western corporations themselves sought a slice of the market.
This brings us to the third Indian failure. The fact is that Indian middle class is fast losing its ‘Dhesi’ values and the South Asian culture is being undermined by the still persistent and widely prevalent ‘ Ghulam Zahniat’. For all the slogans of ‘new super power’, ‘largest democracy’, ‘big and powerful country’ etc, the Indianness is fast ebbing away.
Most middle class Indians feel more proud to speak, act and live and display the consumerist western lifestyle than any indigenous South Asian, Indian or Baharti lifestyle. Their tastes are indistinguishable from those of prosperous young Westerners – high-end luxury cars, designer clothes, maids and full-time cooks, and regular vacations, abroad.
One sign of this is the elites in Mumbai assuming that they too must respond “like America’’ and asking where their Rudy Giuliani was ? The irony is that the sign of being developed and civilized in India is no longer the welfare of its general masses in economic and social terms but ‘ State terrorism and war’.
Like Pakistan Television is being watched increasingly in India and nearly two thirds of the population has now access to television. And it is very profitable. Consequently there is intense competition in news sector and live TV. Many of 24 hour channels are owned by transnational media corporations. And Like Pakistan a disproportionate number of prime time viewers tune into news channels (perhaps due to the age old Subcontinental taste for politics). Consequently this was the first attack that was being telecast and watched live. It seems that even the planners of these attacks knew this and planned to take full advantage of the global audience on offer. The death of V P Singh and eight people in Tamil Nadu rains from 26 to 29th November went nearly unmentioned. To quote ‘They died unmourned and even unmentioned on the explosive screens that kept millions enthralled’.
As some Indian pundits have asked that while media fixated on ‘who’ and ‘how’ for these attacks, ‘why’ was completely ignored. It is the media which seems to be leading the response of Indian State rather than the other way round. In other words, the corporate agendas of the media owners has dictated the response of Indian rulers and Indian state. The proof of sympathy to the upwardly mobile middle class urbanites it seems is war with Pakistan at the cost of teeming poor and destitute billions. As Gopal points out that the ‘the media in India is only nominally public. …it is elite who own the space and dictate the terms of its discourse. In the recent attacks hardly any attention was paid to the railway station where sixty people were killed. TV crews stayed focused on the luxury hotels, where “People Like Us” were affected.’ To quote J S Raman ‘The elite of Mumbai and elsewhere, mourning the fall of the elegant Taj, have been trying to sound tougher than even the politicians of the Parivar (the Far Right “family”).’
We thus see that these three fundamental failures of Indian State that have either incapacitated the senses of Indian State and its rulers and they are being unwillingly led by the media or they have simply become complicit in the dangerous egocentric brinksmanship regardless of the cost to people of Subcontinent. That the complex to ‘be big’ and ‘super power’ is fuelling this on cannot be doubted. But the world is watching. And India must take a note. The very status it craves for more than anything else is under threat due to its childish and amateurish actions. The more it acts like ‘Non-State’ actor the more it risks its status in the comity of nations.
Comments
474 responses to “Why is India behaving like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)?”
@ Asad Ali
this is just the outcome of disorder created by
Indo-Israeli offensive in Fata and NWFP.
The Batilans Consortium of Intrnational Terrorism.
This is not denial … this is called downright lie.
Like i said earlier …. save ur pity and sympathy for ur own countrymen rather roaming around India and Palestine. What a joke … these people are doing “youth alliance” for Palestine support and gathering funds and all … but not a single article ab’t Islamic barbarism that led to fall SWAT into the hands of barbaric people.
@dr.jawwadkhan, Asad Ali and all the likes
Read this.
Letter from SWAT:
The main town of Swat, Mingora, has now virtually fallen to the militants. The police are escorted by army officials and come out from their ‘hide-outs’ only for a couple of hours. One of the busiest squares, Grain chowk, was renamed by the shopkeepers as Khooni chowk because when they come to their shops in the morning on each day they find four or five dead bodies hung over the poles or the trees. They see dead bodies scattered along the foot path in the morning. The bodies are usually headless. The practice goes thus with an average of four deaths daily in the square. Similarly on each morning there are found bodies with their throats slit in Qambar, Kabal, Matta, Khawza Khela and Charbagh. This practice has been going on for weeks; and unfortunately does not seem to stop.
Jan 15 is the deadline set by the militants to close all schools, especially those of girls. As the deadline approaches people are getting more and more terrified. The government’s writ is all but absent. Nazims have been killed, women are not allowed to visit bazaars (which are deserted), NGOs have stopped working and children play a Fauji Taliban game. The people live a miserable life in the cold. Most bridges have been damaged and beyond the main town phones have been dead for months. Most people live in darkness at night because the fighting has badly affected the power infrastructure as well.
Curfew is imposed constraining the people inside for days on end. And security forces personnel sometimes fire indiscriminately. The residents can do nothing – they cannot protest against the high-handedness of the military or stand up to the militants. The Taliban gain from strength to strength, partly aided by the use of FM radio. Various checkposts set up by the security forces seem to be no little use. Scores of militants entered Kalam last week in spite of six checkposts set up from from Bagh Dahri to Bahrain. It is quite clear that for now the victors in the war are the Taliban – and the losers the people of Swat.
But who cares about that in the rest of the country. The government seems too busy dealing with the aftermath of the Mumbai carnage. That said, the predicament of the people of Swat is worse than even of the people of Gaza. In Gaza the enemy is well known but in Swat the people know not who the enemy is and whom to hold responsible.
The civil society of any country is regarded as a great force to mobilize the general public against the violation of civil rights and liberty. It is considered as a bulwark against the violation of human rights. It is deemed as the upholder of people’s rights where the state fails to deliver. Its mettle was tested in the lawyers’ movement but we in Swat wonder why it is silent now? We hear no voice raise against the atrocities committed in Swat. No civil society organization has its voice against the plight of the women and children in Swat. We have not seen a single demonstration in the big cities against the monster of militancy in Swat, or in FATA for that matter. The media also seems apathetic about the plight. The print media does well to some extent but their scope is limited.
The people of Swat ask you to come out on their behalf and mobilize the general public against the war tearing the valley. We implore you to come out of your drawing rooms and stage protests so that the government does something about our plight.
The author is Zubair Torwali, from KhyberWatch.
http://the-redpill.blogspot.com/
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@counterterrorism bhai,
if we have countrymen like Asad Ali and Dr.Jawad who needs enemies
The problem is grave. The truth is Pakistan is in deep sh** and the credit goes to Zia ul Haq(s) policies of Islamization of Pakistan apart from starting an “Intafada” type movement in the State of Kashmir forgetting that the J&K(s) people according to Ayub Khan(s) diaries did not help Pakistani Special Forces in 1965 war
So the Frankenstein of Jehadists we created is on a killing rampage and is uncontrollable. Unfortunately, our security doctrine too has miserably failed and backfired resulting in: STATELESS ACTORS who work freelance to do anything and everything to harm national interests because they simply do not believe in boundaries and borders.
Pakistan(s) stability unfortunately will ensure worlds security and stability and for that: a Marshall Plan needs to be devised apart from forcing my country to go on hard on Islamist Militants & even to those who believes in “Political Islam”. Yes, More American & ISAF Forces in Afghanistan will help Pakistan is curbing these Islamists on our Western borders.
As far as Islamic Barbarism is concerned in Swat; I won’t blame you since most of these Islamists brand “Islam” to justify their beheadings and killings. The process of Talibanization of Pakistan has expanded from FATA to Mainland Pakistan and to Karachi (since Ajmal Kasab & Co.) came via Karachi Route to Bombay.
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nice trick @counter!
but this trick made me laugh.of course not on the tragedy of but to hear from some one whose neighbourhood is full of genocide, messacres and ethnic cleansing you came here thousands of miles away for what?
give us a bhashan on human tragedies
hey counter!
have a look at these pics and compare it with any tragedy in pakistan.
http://www.urdunet.com/gujarat/gujaratphotos.htm
more than 2000 people are murdered countless women raped, business of muslim destroyed and hence no one in convicted.
more than 70000 kashmiris were killed becuse they want right of self detemination.
sikhs and christians?? were equally effected by your narrowmindedness and fenatism.
even people from certain casts of your own religion suffer because they are not “PAWITAR”……..you people are joke on the planet earth.ready to drink urine of cow and allergic to even shadow of “SHOODAR”
I COULDN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT MAKE YOU GIVE US BHASHAN ABOUT HUMANITY
@barristerAK!
mahmood ali durrani is gone tariq aziz has come i don’t know for how long. but pakistan is still alive. to exterminate pakistan the enemies need more witness like mohammed ali durrani,tariq aziz and barristerak.
@roma!
shut up.
no doubt we have a chaos and fighting between armed groups and govt forces people do caught in cross fire but the pic in india is entirely different where govy machinery is use for ethnic cleansing and human rights vioaltion.
“The largest democracy in the world does not have a clean human rights records. Every year, thousands of people are imprisoned for political reasons, often without charges of trials. Torture and ill-treatment are common, and hundreds have died in custody. Hundreds more are victims of extra-judicial executions or forced “disappearances”. Armed groups commit grave human rights violations, including killings, tortures and rapes, with impunity.
http://www.derechos.org/saran/india/
V hv a destination 2 reach wen u r busy fingering ur arses.
V r nt short of comments, actually we dont ascertain a win on this webpage worth it, kyun ki sahab aap to pakistani hain, Gire to bhi taang upar.
And actualy the time wen u pakistanis are busy fetchin the links 2 cover up the bullshit out of the arses of ur fellow brothers, v r busy coding and generating dollars as against u begin it allover to fund ur J HAD . huhu haha. funn real funn
aapke officials thuukte hue jitne uncivilized lagte hain utne hi chaat tey utne hi Pakistani, v r enjoyin it, keep it goin PAKAUistan.
Hey CounterTerrorism jus imagin the mouths full of spit and arses full of shit.
V luv u Pakistanis.
Hahaha fren dats a nail, boss.
Must tellya, i simply cnt stop the giggle, jus imagining the Qureshi chaat tey hue and gilani uska muh pochte hue. its jus the beginin. v hv series of episodes of this daily soap.
i agree v luv u pakistanis.
sorry Seeker,
despite ur advices i cudnt stop commenting to that effect.
its just that v simply cant keep certain jokes unsaid.
bestest regards
pakauistan.
Girey to bhi taang upar.
Such a correct dipiction of that pakauistan.
kudos,
Daily TV sets on karo and be the part of the latest reality show.. Thuk chaatna. The sole winner ever Pakauistan.
isko laga daala to life zingalala
WOW! I NEVER saw WALKING TALKING MONKEY’S SHIT
GAOO MATAA KA PESHAB PEETEY HO AUR KHUD KO CIVILISED KEHTEY HO?LOLZZZZZZZzzz
civilzed hunhhh…..
women take bath openly on rivers
men spread filth all around the railway track in the morning openly, proudly and smilingly….heeeeeeyyyykhhhh
you piece of monkey shit.do you have any idea what the civilised people really look like???
HAHAHA
economies says it all, aap bhi piyo par kuch hag ke to dihao
o sorry filhal to chaat hi lo, phir dekhte hain muh raha to hag bhi dena.
yahooo
HAHAHA
economies says it all boss hhahaha, aap bhi piyo par kuch hag ke to dikhao. hahaha
o sorry filhal to chaat hi lo, phir dekhte hain muh raha to hag bhi dena.
yahooo
arz kia hey
KON KEHTA HEY KE MOT AAEY GI TO INDIAN MAR JAEY GA
INDIAN TO BANDAR HEY DARKHT PE CHARH JAEY GA
kya bataein daactarrri nai chal rahi,
filhal bomb bana ke bachchey paal rraha hun.
beti bhi to byahni hain, Talibaan se rishte jo aa rahe hain.
a patriot pakistani.
huuhuhuhahaha.
chalo bhi aab kaafi time waste kar diya bhai logon, chalo, weekend saara idhar hi waste to karna nai hai. Chalo bhai.
Pakistanio lado jujho, zinda rahe to sarhad pe mil lenge. hum to chale. aap hi kehna aur aap hi sehna
jus like aap hi thukna aur aaphi chaatna. rhyming isnt it.. hahaha huhuh
alwida
indian bhailog aap bhi chalo, hamara yahan kya kaam, ab to shaadiyon mein hi ayenge. agar invite karne layak rahe pakistani to….. hehehe bye alwida.
right ji ekdam right. Seeker bhai chaliye, chalte hain, aapne bataya nai aap kahan se hain btw. india ya pakistan.
batein to theek hi karte hain btw.
nyways hum sab lo chale page chod ke, v hv things too doo. TV dekhna hai hehehehe. the new reality show yahoooooo. bye
you are absolutely right barrister. finally a real pakistani with some real balls to tell the real fukkin truth. Jawwadkhan, Kashmiri, Asad Ali and all you fags should learn how to behave like Barrister.
But of course you guys are cowards who support killing innocents and hide behind Islam when confronted. But Islam has nothing to do with your wickedness and evil ways.
i wz jus draftin sumthin, bt well guided, shudnt waste time…..
Comment by Dr. Jawad on January 9, 2009 @ 1:55 pm
hey monkey kiss my gun and also two bullets under the gun
all these monkeys come to catch a lion???
hey @roma!
keep quite.
break for prayers i shall resume the fight later but please do not hesitate to post.
TO: Jawwadkhan and all his Taliban brothers,
If you bastards are so brave and truly believe in your fight than I give you guys a challenge. Instead of killing innocent people in Mumbai and in the SWAT valley and wherever it is……I challenge you Taliban’s to go fight the American forces in Afghanistan.
Come on show the world that you people have balls man. instead of beating women and children and blowing up innocent people, go fight the American/NATO forces who are they to destroy you.
Now if the Taliban wins the war against the Americans/NATO, I will convert to Talibanism and support your cause all the wayyyyyyyy…….Inshallah.
http://www.ibef.org/artdispview.aspx?in=0&art_id=15012&cat_id=707&page=7
chalo bhai hum bhi chalen, chalte chalte socha, aaina dikha de phir socha yahan to sab andhein hain, anyways bye zinda rahe to fir kisi blog pe mukkkalllaaat/mulakat hogi.
bye.
Now the catch is you must fight the Americans head on like a man. No hiding in your caves and behind civilians and taking pot shots know what I mean? you have to fight them like the Viet Kong fought them in the jungles of Vietnam. Like a man.
come on you guys have all that beard, I’m sure there’s a man hiding behind one of those long dirty beards NO?
Dont spread -vity please. There are no doubts dat certain intellectuals here facilitating unbaised discussion, but any moderator if any, please stop -vity being spread.
Agreed links says it all but plz follow the link
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/India
Well bt all this was said for Bharat which included not just Pakistan.
It wznt said fr Bharat without Pakistan and not for Pakistan alone either.
Brains remembered wat we offered them and we ourselves are on brink of forgeting, lets take a step.
V can do much better is wat i intend to say.
Yes it appears impossible. But the common man has the feeling and we know that and trust me World fears that.
@Seeker
Dat says it all, u r a Paki.
U wan all the so far attained credit to b sahred. clever it was..
V shudnt contradicting ur prayers fren.
Prayer might hv a specific timing, but it extends throu out our conducts.
I think enuf -vity, sorrry seeker wat ever u say.
i leave with this apology.
sorry pakistanis. sorry pakistan.
i love my county no matter wat and respect other countries no matter wat.
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
– Mark Twain (American writer)
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
~ Albert Einstein (German Physicist)
If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
~ Max Mueller (German scholar)
You’d have to be brain dead to live in India and not be affected by Hinduism. It’s not like Christianity in America, where you feel it only on Sunday mornings … if you go to church at all. Hinduism is an on-going daily procedure. You live it, you breathe it.” “Hinduism has a playful aspect which I’ve not experienced in any other religion. Its not so righteous or sober as is Christianity, nor is it puritanical. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy India. I wake up in the morning, and I’m very content.
-Marcus Leatherdale (Canadian photographer)
India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
-Wheeler Wilcox (American poet)
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
– W. Heisenberg (German Physicist)
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator’s hand.
– George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwrite)
India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. While the world sleeps a dynamic and a pulsating India is emerging. Its time to fly India. ~ Bhavin Rawal,London)
India is probably the best country in the world, both scenic and peaceful, it truly is god’s country. ~ Kobe Bryant
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. ~ Romain Rolland (French Nobel Laureate)
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ~ Hu Shih (Chinese ambassador to the US)
It will no longer remain to be doubted that the priests of Egypt and the sages of Greece have drawn directly from the original well of India, that it is to the banks of the Ganges and the Indus that our hearts feel drawn as by some hidden urge.
-Friedrich Mejer (English statesman)
I come from an Indian Muslim family, but I experience India as a very pleasant country, whereas in Pakistan I feel ill at ease. You would think it should be the reverse. But in spite of its many defects, India is a rich and open society, while Pakistan is culturally an impoverished and closed society
– Salman Rushdie (Indian novelist)
A kind of India happens everywhere, that’s the truth too; everywhere is terrible and wonder-filled and overwhelming if you open your sense to the actual pulsating beat.
– Salman Rushdie (Indian novelist)
In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth. but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing.
– Apollonius Tyanaeus ( Greek Thinker and Traveler)
There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.
– Keith Bellows (Vice-President, National Geographic Society)
The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.
– Henrich Heine (German poet)
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.
-George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwrite)
With one foot grounded in time-honored traditions and the other fervently striding into the entrepreneurial e-age, India embraces diversity passionately as few other countries on earth could.
– Lonely Planet (Travel guide book)
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. ~ Mark Twain
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. ~ Mark Twain (Following the Equator)
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. ~ Will Durant
India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings. ~ Will Durant
There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor. ~ Keith Bellows (photographer and vice president of National Geographic Society)
It is impossible not to be astonished by India. Nowhere on Earth does humanity present itself in such a dizzying, creative burst of cultures and religions, races and tongues. Enriched by successive waves of migration and marauders from distant lands, every one of them left an indelible imprint which was absorbed into the Indian way of life. Every aspect of the country presents itself on a massive, exaggerated scale, worthy in comparison only to the superlative mountains that overshadow it. It is this variety which provides a breathtaking ensemble for experiences that is uniquely Indian. Perhaps the only thing more difficult than to be indifferent to India would be to describe or understand India completely. There are perhaps very few nations in the world with the enormous variety that India has to offer. Modern day India represents the largest democracy in the world with a seamless picture of unity in diversity unparalleled anywhere else. ~ A Rough Guide to India (a travel book [1])
Ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt and Rome have all disappeared from this world, but the elements of our civilization still continue. Although world-events have been inimical to us for centuries, there is something in our civilization which has withstood these onslaughts.- Allama Iqbal (1873-1938)
Lord Ram is the Imam of Hindustan (India).- Allama Iqbal (1873-1938)
Greeks, Scythians, Parthians, Kushans, Huns, Arabs, Mongols, Turks, Muslims, Portuguese, French, English, all went after one civilisation: India and prospered. It lost everything except its soul (spirituality). It will regain its true place in this world and its Sun will rise again. – Aggyatt Manav
India of ages in not dead’ nor has She spoken her last creative word; She lives and still has something to do for herself and the human peoples. – Sri Aurobindo
India is the guru of the nations, the physician of human soul in its profounder maladies; she is destined once more to new mould the life of the world and restore the peace of the human spirit. – Sri Aurobindo
No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they – Arrian, Greek historian, philosopher, and statesman during the Roman period
This also is remarkable in India, that all Indians are free, and no Indian at all is a slave. In this the Indians agree with the Lacedaemonians. Yet the Lacedaemonians have Helots for slaves, who perform the duties of slaves; but the Indians have no slaves at all, much less is any Indian a slave – Arrian, Greek historian, philosopher, and statesman during the Roman period
Yunan-o-Misr-o-Roma Sab Mit Gaye Jahan Se, Ab Tak Magar Hai Baki Naam-o-Nishan Hamara, Kuchh Baat Hai Ke Hasti Mit’ti Nahin Hamari, Sadiyon Raha Hai Dushman Daur-e-Zaman Hamara. – Muhammad Iqbal, Indian Poet, Philosopher and Politician
(In English: Egyptian Civilization & Roman Civilization have all vanquished from this world but even today we(Indian culture, in true sense) are here. There is something in this soil that helped us(Indian culture, in true sense) survive innumerable enemies.)
i wz born within indian Borders fren.
But Borders too had a birth date, it wz born too, it never existed it wz human limitation dat borders got created bt i assure border will have a expiry date.
V remain +ve no matter wat.
@ roma,
you are a sick Indian arshole,
all what you have uttered bElonged and still belong to
Pakistani territory, INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION,
GHANDHARA CIVILIZATION HARRAP, TEXILA, MOHANDO DERO,
MEHAR GARH, your article is nothing but a wasted
Indian rotten arse.
i shud leave.
thnx.
@seeker
it is indians who unfortunately don’t want to face the truth and start to attack with cheap and disgusting remarks.you can see for yourself who started this??
@yes mee too! on January 9, 2009 @ 2:18 pm
i have the list which prove otherwise.
come on stay here.don’t be pussy.see your ugly face
@pakistanis v luv u!
yeh ziyadati hey.kahan chal diye lala ji?
@me too!
i am back
@roma!
stop your brothers in law.
@seeker!
jin sarhadon men lakhon masoom aur bebas logon ka khoon ho.
jo sarhaden bachon ko unke walden ke samney tukrhey kar ke banaee jaen, jin sarhadon ke us taraf hazaron insanon ko zinda jala diya jaey,jahan khoonkhuwar kuttey jaisey log masoom aur bebas auraton ko ghar se bahar nikal kar sar e aam unki asmat daree karen aur unka qanoon khil khila kar hansta rahey.insaniyat ka munh chirrhata rahey.
wahan qomen to khatam ho saktee hen sarhaden naheen.
pakistani borders will expand inshaALLAH.
@roma,
you will regret what you have said, prepare yourself
your rotten article is not even worth answering but,
I know your Rabwah/Hiafa links, you have declared that
you are non-muslim, so be careful what you say on
Pakistan Islam and muslims ? I advice you to be careful
@ The Genocide of Palestinians by Israeli Nazis
îs not even condemned by roma or seekers etc.
We have the right to condemn anti-Arabism and
Islamophobia of roma & co.
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71443.htm
Lets condemn this first!
Pakistan
International Religious Freedom Report 2006
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
The country is an Islamic republic. Islam is the state religion and the constitution requires that laws be consistent with Islam. The constitution states that “subject to law, public order and morality, every citizen shall have the right to profess, practice, and propagate his religion;” however, in practice the Government imposes limits on freedom of religion. Freedom of speech is constitutionally “subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interest of the glory of Islam.” The country was created to be a homeland for Muslims, although its founders did not envisage it as an Islamic state.
Asad Ali,
What is your answer to Roma’s challenge? Do you have the Lund for it?
Hey Asad Ali,
two of your brothers were killed yesterday by American drones at the afghan/paki border while your leaders were kissing their american masters arse……now who’s the bitch man?
You and all your people are bitches to the American power. Look at how your leaders wag their Paki tails like a dog when the American powers come to visit. All that arse kissing just for a billion dollars?
@jaiharami,
ask romasshole to stuff his religion into his
infected Indo/israeli arse, I have what you want baby
but you have roma inside already in your gandd !
@ romasshole,
you and your Qadiani/zionist balls
Americans have rabwah as their pet dog to lick their
arse, that is why they are rubbing their swine ass
in Haifah.
Mouth bawasir has no remedy
@Indian,
ha ha ha ha hah ha ha ha ha !!!
take your American State department bullshit
and use it as toilet paper,
The US deprtment is embarassed because her
own Catholic community paid 660 millions of US$ as fine
to the pedophyles victims children by the fucking your
spiritual fathers religious priests. It was only last
year,
hahahahahhhahahahha
@jaram
@ roma
you guys are too much
@ jaiharami,
have you resolved your erection problem ?
roma tried his best to repaire your unf****ble
Hinduvta uncircumcised LULLI,!!!
well said asad.
it was an open secret you revealed publicly.
oooooooohahahahahhahahahhahhahahahhaha
muhhhhhahahahahhahahahhahahahahah
” Apna haga howa khud khao ” Brahman ecology
citations : Indian kahawat !!
@ Yes mee too ! you F****ing dirty stinking arse
Bad-tehzeeb Haramis
@Ray Kashmiri/Asad Ali. Which is your real name? Kashmiri or Asad Ali? I know you’re both the same person. Why are you afraid of using Kashmiri? Did the website ban you from coming back is that why ohhhh poor Jan?
@jairam & roma,
the world has witnessed what Rafay Kashmiri and
Dr.jawwadkhan did with you two guys on Paknewz.com
I have the pleasure to go thru the entire thread, where
you both proved to be real cowards and anti-muslim
zionist arsholes. These two Gentlemen have gathered you
both and literally put your faces inside your arses in
180o angle, you F**ing Hindu-zionist chamaars.
Many bloggers are inspired by Rafay Kashmiri’s courage,
outspokenness, frankness and spit in your eyes daring,
we all know that he loves you guys !! he is a very
peacfull guy, hates war mongers. Currently he is on 3
blogs with his great name Rafay, means the highest.
@ and what is your real names roma or jairam ?
Rafay Kashmiri is Rafay Kashmiri
Asad Ali is Asad Ali, you think I am afraid
of anyone? waiting for you on Paknewz.com